Hi, Glenn. I have NVDA on my Windows machine now. It has Eloquence
because we're using JAWS. Eloquence didn't seem to be on the list of
supported speech output for NVDA, neither mentioned in the online manual
nore available when I arrowed around to see what was there. How do you
get NVDA to work with Eloquence? (I know this is far from a Speakup
topic, but your message cries out to me for the question.)
Thanks!
Al
On 12/5/2015 2:13 PM, Glenn wrote:
I'm not a fan of SAPI voices, because they are less responsive than others
like Eloquence or eSpeak, but when I install NVDA on people's computers, I
generally use the SAPI voice, which is similar to the voice on the iPhone,
and most folks new to a screenreader prefer a human-sounding voice.
I use Eloquence on NVDA, as well as in JFW.
As things are getting so much smaller these days, the computers are getting
smaller than our external synths.
I hope to get an Intel NUC, which is about the size of my external DecTalk
Express.
My favorite synth was the internal Artic215, now that was a responsive
synth! I wish they had made it in a PCI card, as I still have a few towers
around the house using PCI slots, but none with ISA slots, and I am only
keeping the old towers going, I don't really want to build any more big
towers, as I could find a motherboard with an ISA slot, I just don't need
another tower/desktop type any more.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2015 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: software speech
but why?
There are many hardware synthesizers with far better voice quality. Even
models that were available in USB.
why on earth should anyone be expected to have poor quality speech when
the tools exist otherwise?
Not that I am a windows user, or a Linux one either of course smiles.
Kare
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015, Tony Baechler wrote:
On 12/4/2015 8:21 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Tom,
Does NVDa support hardware speech at all?
Kare
The short answer is no. ESpeak is the default but it does support SAPI
and
has its own software synth called NV Speech Player. However, there is a
very
basic addon for the DECtalk Express which doesn't work very well and
another
DECtalk addon which looks better, but I haven't tried it. In theory, it
shouldn't be hard to support hardware speech because it has good serial
Braille support, but I'm not a Python programmer. I had the idea to hack
a
Braille driver to support the DECtalk Express, but I didn't get very far
and
it probably wouldn't work anyway. Therefore, I would say for now the
official answer is not really.
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